High school teaches app creation

Appster co-founder Josiah Humphreys says the app creation course at Hobart's New Town High may give students the upper hand in finding a job.

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Tim Dodd

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Hobart's New Town High School has partnered app and web development company Appster to build a course to teach students how to code and create apps. Called Game App Design, the course is being offered to about 90 year-nine and year-ten students at the school. Its curriculum includes the history of apps, how they work and how they shape people's interaction with technology.

Chris Deeley, the head of information and communications technology at New Town High, said the there was "quite a buzz about the course". Josiah Humphreys, co-CEO of Appster, said he believed the course would "give students an upper hand in securing a job; a job which may not even exist as yet."

New Town High said the course was in a trial stage and the school would evaluate it at the end of the year.